[HSF] A Bridge that leads to nowhere?

[Tea Acuff]

"highway to heaven"
Tea


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Firstenberg <msfirst at gmail.com>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:47:01 AM
Subject: [HSF] A Bridge that leads to nowhere?


As we are all doing more and more VAD-bridge to transplants - particularly
in acute/salvage cases - has anyone encountered (which I am sure has
happened) a case where after you put the VAD in and the patient stabilizes,
get better, everything looks great (high fives all around) - only to find
out some obvious contraindication to transplant that was not obvious before
(cancer is the first that comes to mind).  The easy answer is "DT" - but
maybe a little more complex?


michael
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